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brittlebush

britt·le·bush

uncommon

noun

1.

fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine

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From brittle + bush, from the frangibility of its stems.

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